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 Issue of June 26, 2006 
   
Final Wal-Mart Check-Cashing Hearing Held
By Andrea Gregory
Wal-Mart last week took one final shot at convincing the state Division of Banks it would be filling a community need by offering check-cashing services at all of its 44 retail stores in Massachusetts.

Correspondent Banking Services Growing at Hub-Based Eastern
By Andrea Gregory
For decades, banks have been doing business with other banks when it comes to overnight investments: clearing checks drawn on other institutions, delivering coin and currency to branches and ATMs and buying and selling bonds for a bank’s investment portfolio, among other things. It can be an interesting relationship – competitor by day business partner by night – said Lloyd Hamm Jr., chief administrative officer for Boston-based Eastern Bank.



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